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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"self-enhancement"”.
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The Endowment Effect: A Self-Enhancement Perspective
… argues that selling is perceived as an implicit self-threat and sellers as a part of their automatic defense mechanism respond to this self-threat by enhancing the value of the self-associated object. Three studies test the above hypothesis and provide support to the proposed model.</p>
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The dual role of self-enhancement : protection and stigma
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Self-Enhancement Styles Sorting Out Conflicting Evidence on the Effects of Self-Enhancing
<p>Two distinct styles of self-enhancement were proposed, an Offensive Self-Enhancement Style which consisted of people exaggerating their abilities, putting themselves above others and being sensitive to failures, and a Defensive Self-Enhancement Style which consisted of acknowledgment of …
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Self-Enhancement and Consistency as Determinants of Causal and Trait Attributions of Outcome
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Demystifying the Link Between Loneliness and Materialism: Mediating Roles of Emotion Regulation, Self-Enhancement, and Escapism
… materialism, this study views loneliness as a self-discrepancy and examines its influence on materialism through three mediators (emotion regulation, self-enhancement, escapism) within the perspective of compensatory consumer behavior. Results from this study contribute to the growing body of …
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Self-presentation on social media – when self-enhancement confronts self-verification in a virtual public space
… examined the impact of social media on people’s self-evaluation (e.g. Valkenburg, Peter & Schouten, 2006; Vogel, Rose, Roberts & Eckles, 2014; Gonzales & Hancock, 2009). However, there has not been any research that examined this issue from the perspective of psychological motives – that is, what …
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Reducing Narcissistic Defensiveness Through the Activation of Belonging
… levels of narcissism possess extremely positive self-evaluations that may mask underlying feelings of inferiority and a need for love and acceptance. People with high levels of narcissism defend their inflated self-evaluations through chronic self-enhancement processes, which can have negative …
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Profile membership of self-worth contingencies predicts well-being, virtues, and values.
Historically, researchers have conceptualized self-esteem as global self-evaluation; recently, others have suggested that people are selective about what affects their self-worth. Two studies (N = 1,032) used a person-centered approach to examine how six domains of self-worth contingency associate …
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Living expressions and their effects on primary recipients
… and/or relatives. Effects of events on the self-esteem of recipients and recipient's relationships with disclosers were studied. Self-esteem and self-disclosure are components of personal and relational health. Living Expressions were expected to enhance self-esteem and personal …
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Why fight : examining self-interested versus communally-oriented motivations in Palestinian resistance and rebellion
… individuals join insurgent organizations for self-interested reasons, seeking status, money, protection, or rewards in the afterlife. Another line of research, largely ethnographic and social network based, suggests that prospective fighters are driven by social identity-they join out of an …
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Individual differences in the recall of performance appraisal feedback
… biased toward recalling negative feedback. Two self-motive theories, self-enhancement theory Jones & Gerard,1973), and Competence motivation theory (White, 1959) were tested in an attempt to determine which of these two theories could best account for the Donlin findings. Self-enhancement theory …
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Defending the self: the role of the relational-interdependent self-construal
<p>Individuals with relational-interdependent self-construals define themselves based on their important relationships. This organization of the self-concept has implications for self-enhancement and self-protection. High relationals should be motivated to maintain and strengthen important …
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Social Cognitive Factors Associated With Verbal Bullying And Defending
… in the study. Data were collected using a self-report survey format during the 2013-2014 school year. Social cognitive variables were analyzed by grade and gender. Results indicated a statistically significant main effect for gender. Female students reported significantly higher scores for …
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Strategic decision-making of Chinese managers on corporate social responsibility issues: A policy-capturing study
… SDM. Moreover, the higher the level of resultant self-enhancement, the less likely it is that managers make decisions to participate in CSR activities. In other words, the higher the resultant self-enhancement represents the managers are at the higher level of egoism (lower level of altruism), …
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Memory for performance feedback: a test of three self- motivation theories
The current study tests the adequacy of three self-motive theories to predict recall of performance feedback, memory sensitivity, and ratings of perceived accuracy. Self-enhancement (Jones, 1973) predicts individuals are motivated to maintain their self-esteem. Individuals will therefore recall …
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A Possible Self Program for the Foreign Language Class
… support the use of mental imagery for possible self enhancement; and articulate and evaluate a pedagogical intervention designed for the foreign language class. This intervention will allow students to explore and develop prominent and vivid mental representations (self-schemas) of their L2 …
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The influence of brand personalities on consumers:exploring the moderating role of implicit self-theories.
… an attempt to affirm and enhance their sense of self (Escalas and Bettman 2003; Swaminathan, Stilley, and Ahluwalia 2009). However, this line of research has not examined actual brand use, and has not tested whether using these brands actually results in self-enhancement. The purpose of this …
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Know Thyself: Misperceptions of Actual Performance Undermine Subjective Well-Being, Future Performance, and Achievement Motivation
Contrary to the popular assumption that self-enhancement improves task motivation and future performance, I propose that both inflated or deflated self-assessments of performance are linked to an increased likelihood of practicing self-handicapping and having relatively poor performance in future …
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Know thyself: Misperceptions of actual performance undermine subjective well-being, future performance and achievement motivation
Contrary to the popular assumption that self-enhancement improves task motivation and future performance, I propose that both inflated or deflated self-assessments of performance are linked to an increased likelihood of practicing self-handicapping and having relatively poor performance in future …
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